Revised list of high-class original motion picture films (1908)

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TRAGEDY. the struggling man is taken from the vehicle and thrown upon the ground, where he is beaten insensible. His valuables as well as coat and hat, are taken, and his apparently lifeless form is taken to a creek, into which it is thrown. We now revert to the doctor's office, and in the dim nocturnal illumination we see the figure of the feigning patient climb into the window. The desk is broken open and several of the compartments examined for valuables. One case is opened, and from it the patient takes a bottle of liquor, from which he takes liberal draughts. Taking a seat he dozes off, where we leave him for a moment and go to the outside of the building, where the two men who assaulted the doctor have just arrived. One is stationed as guard, and the other, wearing the doctor's hat and coat, opens the gate with the doctor's keys and soon passes into the house. The accomplice in the office now awakens with a start, and with stealthy tread he passes into another room. As he surveys the bed in which lies sleeping the innocent little boy of the doctor, he draws near and raises an arm, in the hand of which he is holding an ugly looking dagger, but at this moment he hears footsteps, and stepping back he sees an opposite door open and cautiously advancing through it the doctor. Advancing in the dark he makes an attack upon the figure, and we see that the newcomer falls to the floor in a swoon. As he stoops down to more completely do his work of destruction he recognizes his accomplice, and is appalled at his action. The doctor is rescued by some men who heard the splash of water as his body struck it, and as soon as revived he tells his story to the police, who have already been summoned. Officers are dispatched to the home of the doctor, and as they approach they perceive th.e figure of the guard as he, anxious and morbid with curiosity, is peering around the portals, and he is immediately taken into custody. Entering the building they come upon the scene in the sleeping room of the boy, the murderer is immediately hustled off in the custody of other officers and the boy is started off to meet his father, who is being led home, and father and child are happy to havo been spared to each other. Arriving at the home, the father makes a hurried examination of the unconscious man, his antagonist of only an hour previous. in the sleeping room, and calls for and applies restoratives. When the man revives he looks intensely into the countenance of the doctor, and kissing his hand he drops hark, receiving the reward "! sin, which is death. This is a subject that will commend itself to any audience. S3